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D. DESHON; 2d.

7 Churn.

No. 27,701. Patented April 3, 1860 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL DESHON, 2D, OF SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHURN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,701, dated April 3, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL DESHON, 2d, of the town and county ofSomerset, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Churns; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Similar letters referring to similar parts.

The nature of my invention consists in a mechanical arrangement forchanging the fulcrum of the vessel which contains the milk as the weightof milk passes from one end of the vessel to the other, thereby saving avery large amount of labor.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, a perspective view of the vesselwhich contains the milk, and represents the arrangement of the breakingracks or dashers and also the arrangement of rockers (b) which act asfulcrums and which are furnished with a number of projections which areused as guides for rockers Fig. 2, is a perspective view of one of thebreakers or racks. Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the pedestal orchair on which the vessel that contains the milk is suspended, is thevessel which contains the milk, this vessel is constructed in the formrepresented in Fig. l, and is furnished with projections which act asguides for the rockers The racks or breakers (i) are constructed in theform represented in Fig. 2, and are arranged in the vessel (a) in theposition represented by the dotted lines seen in Fig. 1. Experience hasdemonstrated the fact that butter will be produced from the milk orcream in a much shorter space of time by arranging the racks in theposition represented in Fig. 1, than canbe done by any other arrangementof said racks; (72,) is the pedestal or chair which is constructed inthe form represented in Fig. 3, and is furnished with ways for therockers (b) of vessel ((4). These ways have a number of notches markedwhich correspond in position, size, and number to the position size andnumber of projections on the rockers (b), (c) is the handle used inoperating the churn, (c) is the handle of the lid.

The size and form of the chair or pedestal (h), the rack or breakers themilk vessel (a) and the rockers (Z9), must in all cases correspond andbe adapted the one to the other as represented in the accompanyingdrawings.

Now the operation of churning in this churn is performed by applying alittle force to the handle (0) moving it back and forward; by this meansthe vessel is thrown on an incline plane alternately from one end of thevessel to the other, forcing the material to be churned through theracks or dashers by its own weight, and this is done without contendingbut very little with the weight from the fact that the fulcrum at thebottom of the rockers (1)) changes from one end to the other inaccordance to the change of the weight inside of the vessel, alwayskeeping in the center of the weight; consequently balancing the weightin its motion and saving most of the labor required to churn.

Having thus described the nature construction and operation of myimprovement in churns, what I claim as of my invention and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is The combination andarrangement of the racks or breakers (2') vessel (a), pedestal or chair(It) with the rockers (Z2) with projections and notches (g) in therocker ways, the whole being combined, arranged, constructed andoperated in the manner herein described and for the purpose set forth.

DANIEL DESHON, 2N1).

\Vit-nesses JAMES J. Joi-rNsToN, GEORGE P. STEOK.

